I innocently went into my home building supply outlet and asked if they had any lead sheets for sound insulation. You would have thought I had asked for first rights to his first born. "I would not have that stuff in my store", I told him if you did not eat it, or get shot with it you would be okay. So thought I would come to the source and ask where can I get some lead sheets for sound proofing my engine compartment. Just went a West Marine store by me and they want 150 dollars for a 32 X 54 piece piece of sound insulation. That sounded pricey.

Scott, you can also get it at plumbing supply stores, it is used for lead pans (showers). It is pricey but most people use viynal sheets now. If you can find ones that are damaged you might get a price break. Go to the older or oldest plumbing store around and ask.

Dallas, we got satin sheets once many years ago, after spending a couple of nights chasing my pillow I got rid of them and went back to regular cotton sheets lol. For soundproofing now most use mass loaded vinyl, it's available in several thicknesses and can be bought in rolls, very nice to work with and seems to do a good job. Concentrate in areas like over the wheel wells and over the engine compartment, road noise and engine noise are the biggest culprits.

Sheet rubber is also a good sound deadener and with the efforts to dispose of old tires the prices seemed to be dropping a year ago. Given that tires have oil in them I wonder at the possible odor problem. Any advice on that?

John

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I was looking at lead sheeting for my gen compartment and ran into a real problem. I'm really attached to my money and they wanted a large chunk of it for lead sheeting The mass loaded vinyl is pricey also. I called several junk opp's recycling facility's. One stated that he had a dumpster full of sheeting. I went and it was folded up, but was going under genset anyway. So I bought what I needed, took it home unfolded it and with a 1' 2X8 and a sledge made it flat enough in about 10 minutes. It is very soft and easy to work with. If you are looking at $150 worth of sheeting, this method will cost you about $15. It also gave me the opportunity to poke around the stainless scrap and see if there was anything I could use. HTH JIm

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MLV will not hold up to the heat and vibration from a bus and reading the spec it is for sound proofing not sound deadening lead is the best for deadening check the manufacture spec not the suppliers that sell it.FWIW one of the major converters of Prevost got in big trouble using MLV he is no longer around